this morning i met up with a potential contractor for good girl dinette's tenant improvement. we met up at the job site so that he can take pictures of the site, pick up the plans, and discuss money-saving options. we ripped up the carpet to see if putty was used when it was installed. it was, and that's not good. that means more work to get the floors acceptable for the health department. he gave me a tip for removing debris from the wall, to bring out the beauty of the brick. we talked about the near impossibility of getting around getting a grease trap, where the hood is going to go, and general demolition.
then i went home and went to work generating documents for the health department. my architect and i just received the health department's response to our plans and, among other things, they want us to provide manufacturer's specifications for the kitchen equipment. although not intellectually taxing, it is a task that is extremely tedious. while i was toiling away, looking up the total btu's, voltage, amps, gph, and hertz and checking for nsf or ansi certification for each and every item that will go into my kitchen, i saw my beautiful saturday afternoon turn into dusk, then night. this is the tedious part of the business: the achingly mind-numbing work that's so necessary to get the business going, the restaurant equivalent of cinderella picking barley from the cinders, except there are no magical birds to help out.
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